Speech #740006314

That is. the legal intention of his language was that all international questions arising under. a code and all questions arising under the treaties should be submitted to the court. That a judicial substitute for war should be created (or if existing in part. adapted and adjusted) in the form or nature of an international court. modeled on our Federal Supreme Court in its jurisdiction over controversies between our sovereign States. such court to possess affirmative jurisdictionListento hear and decide all purely international controversies as defined by the code or arising under treaties * * *. Under that language there is not a lawyer in the Senate who wishes. to preserve his reputation as a lawyer who will rise and say that that would not submit to the compulsory jurisdiction of the world court proposed to be created by the Senator from Idaho any question that might arise under a treaty between this Government and any other government relating to the subject of immigration or relating to any other subject that was involved in the treaty. Thelanguage is so comprehensive that it does not require legal interpretation. It is explicit.